Coursera is a platform where individuals can search for and sign up for online courses and learn on their own schedule or take a scheduled course. The list of courses will look something like this:

When you select a course, you can find out more about it, the instructor, the course syllabus and the course readings before you sign up. For example, here’s the information about the self-paced Chinese for Beginners course.

To create a course and host it on the Coursera platform, you will need to be a member of staff in a partner university or organisation.